
(FILES) This handout picture posted on September 21, 2020 on the Instagram account of @navalny shows then Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia Navalnaya in Berlin's Charite hospital. The "murder" of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison in 2024 is now a "science-proven fact", his widow Yulia Navalnaya said on February 14, 2026 after five European countries said Moscow used a lethal toxic on the Kremlin opponent. (Photo by Instagram account @navalny / AFP via Getty Images) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Instagram account @navalny / handout" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

